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Hi, a fellow peregrino from USAStarting a solo walk from Porto September 2022. Completed the French way from St Jean 2015
I have just postponed my Portuguese Camino from May to September due to the obvious, and the airline constantly amending my flight. September was my original intention, but swapped to May out of frustration not being able to leave Australia, and now back to my original plan. I will be walking the coastal route until Baiona if the weather is good, then bus back down the coast to head inland to Valenca / Tui. If the weather is raining, then will just head inland from Caminha. I will be arriving in Porto on 14 September, and plan to take up to 5 weeks to complete the journey, maybe we will see each other along the way.Starting a solo walk from Porto September 2022. Completed the French way from St Jean 2015
Do you have a starting date? Which route will you follow? I’m planning a September 2022 solo Portuguese Camino too.Starting a solo walk from Porto September 2022. Completed the French way from St Jean 2015
Me too brother, my Camino Frances was cancelled in Sept 2020 due to you-know-what, and I think this year is finally a year that I can make it! I will take the time off work but not book the flights until 2 weeks before - lucky to live in the UK so plenty of flexibility for me. The latest JB book arrived yesterday so I'm getting very excited. Not decided on an exact date yet, but intend to walk from Porto. Hope to see you along the way!!Starting a solo walk from Porto September 2022. Completed the French way from St Jean 2015
Thank you for sharing this! Where would you recommend starting? We're planning to take a bus to avoid this and save time (we only got two weeks off work and we don't want to rush).Be aware the first 3 days due north out of Porto involves surfaces of concrete, cobblestones and bitumen. If I did it again I would take the coastal route for those first days, and then rejoin the central path. Everyone's different though.
My other observation is that the CP north from Porto is very pleasant, but noticeably more 'urban' than the CF.
Matosinhos is a good place to start the Camino. It's about 13 km north of the Porto cathedral, the traditional starting point, and avoids all that urban landscape leaving Porto. The No. 500 bus takes you right to the Ponte Movel over the Leça River at Matosinhos. Once you cross that bridge and head north, you're basically in the countryside on the coastal boardwalk. Very pretty from that point on.Thank you for sharing this! Where would you recommend starting? We're planning to take a bus to avoid this and save time (we only got two weeks off work and we don't want to rush).
Super appreciated,
Ultreia!
It is a good advice to start in Matosinhos . Next to bus 500 which follows the Douro river you also can take the metro to stop Mercado in Matosinhos .Mercado is next to the bridge (ponte movíl ) over the Leixões harbour where the caminho leads on the coastal path With the boardwalks ( beware of recreative bikers using these boardwalks with you. They are very narrow so one has to make place for the other ) If you use poles on the boardwalk , you definitively will loose the rubber tips and it will be hardly possible to find them back in the sand underneath .What great tip! Thank you so much!
Obrigadísima,
Ultreia!
Por nadaThese are some really fantastic tips!
I definitely don't want to miss the beauty of Sé, OR THE FOOD!!!! (Food is the second reason why I'm going, and the first is history (since you said "mercado" all I can think of is breakfast there because I know from my trip to Spain that breakfasts are not "wholesome" in that part of the world (I'll need more than coffee and pastry if you know what I mean hehe))).
I expect to give back to the forum when I do my caminho what a wonderful community.
Obrigadísima Albertinho!
Ultreia!
At the Mercado stop is a Mercado under a roof as there are many on the Iberic penninsular. at the corner is a small restaurant / coffe bar just before the stairs up to the bridge but I can’t remember they offered bacon and cheese sandwiches or bacon and eggs . When I worked in Spain nobody I knew was having breakfast at home.These are some really fantastic tips!
I definitely don't want to miss the beauty of Sé, OR THE FOOD!!!! (Food is the second reason why I'm going, and the first is history (since you said "mercado" all I can think of is breakfast there because I know from my trip to Spain that breakfasts are not "wholesome" in that part of the world (I'll need more than coffee and pastry if you know what I mean hehe))).
I expect to give back to the forum when I do my caminho what a wonderful community.
Obrigadísima Albertinho!
Ultreia!
Breakfast in Portugal or Spain can be a trial if you need something more substantive than coffee and pastry. I remember one hotel in A Guarda, Spain, where we had to make a special request for the kitchen staff to boil some eggs for us on the dinner shift and hold them for us in the fridge for the next morning because all they had no kitchen staff in the morning and served nothing but bread and pastry. The place Albertinho mentioned sounds like a real winner.These are some really fantastic tips!
I definitely don't want to miss the beauty of Sé, OR THE FOOD!!!! (Food is the second reason why I'm going, and the first is history (since you said "mercado" all I can think of is breakfast there because I know from my trip to Spain that breakfasts are not "wholesome" in that part of the world (I'll need more than coffee and pastry if you know what I mean hehe))).
I expect to give back to the forum when I do my caminho what a wonderful community.
Obrigadísima Albertinho!
Ultreia!
Você sabe bem a cozinha Portuguêsa eu não gosto de tudo que você mentiona. Tripa , yagggMoito obrigada!
I CAN'T WAIT to eat any Portuguese food for breakfast and all day (and night because I'll be jetlagged)!!!!
Bolinho de bacalhau, arroz caldoso, polvo, tripas, feijoada de mariscos, arroz de mariscos, FAVAS, legumes, caldeirada de pexe, arroz de tomate, arroz de feijão, peixinhos da horta, sopa de castanhas, açorda, comida de rua, de mercado, de tasca....
Now I'm so hungry!
Minha mãe que paraíso culinário. sopa de castanha também? a franzecinha parece uma bomba
Minha mãe que paraíso culinário. Sopa de castanha também? Miam miam. A franzecinha parece uma bomba Eu quero estar lá agora!!!Você sabe bem a cozinha Portuguêsa eu não gosto de tudo que você mentiona. Tripa , yaggg
Você não diz Frango com piri piri , ou Franceszinha ( a bomba de cholesteról) Ou churiço grelhado em aguardente ( typico de Porto ) sardinhas grelhadas. Todas as pratas com bacalhau ( cada dia do ano tem outra receita. ) Bacalhau a bras por eixamplo
E quando você está perto de Coimbra se servem leitão assado . Delicioso.
A special thanks to you @Albertinho for all your advice, especially this one....the waymarked path in Matosinhos passes some delicious fish restaurants and you miss those when you take the bus or the metro....
Which guide book did you use for Porto to Santiago?Starting a solo walk from Porto September 2022. Completed the French way from St Jean 2015